David Levithan Quotes
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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My kids have a competitive drive I never had growing up.
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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Relationships are hard. If as an actor you marry an engineer or a doctor, it's really hard for them because they don't understand what your life is like. We live two lives. We have a 'reel' life and a real life.
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My thing about going to the gym is that I leave my bracelets on, and I put on my makeup the way I would do it in real life, and I wear cute clothes, because if I don't feel good when I leave the house, then I'm not motivated to do it. I need to like how I look while I'm doing it.
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Red Interactive, the digital advertising agency, is a real, systemic kind of business, as opposed to a one-off thing. We can help advertisers frustrated by old media find clients they can work with.
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I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.
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I can have three touchdowns and 200 yards, but if we lose the game, what's it all for?
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There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
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It was a real surprise to me to come across the evidence that Christianity might once have been a danced religion. Certainly, some of the early church leaders thought this was great and spoke of what seems to have been circle dancing, perhaps around an altar.
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I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.
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The first step is to measure whatever can easily be measured. This is OK as far as it goes. The second step is to disregard that which can't be easily measured or to give it an arbitrary quantitative value. This is artificial and misleading. The third step is to presume that what can't be measured easily really isn't important. This is blindness. The fourth step is to say that what can't be easily measured really doesn't exist. This is suicide.
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When it comes to valuation, there's only one thing stock investors really care about, which is earnings.
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The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.
